"The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force."
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"Will is wish, and liberty is power."
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"History is the lie commonly agreed upon."
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"Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves."
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"A superficial freedom to wander aimlessly here or there, to taste this or that, to make a choice of distractions, is simply a sham. It claims to be a freedom of "choice" when it has evaded the basic task of discovering who it is that chooses."
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"For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold."
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"Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose."
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"Freedom is slavery some poets tell us. Enslave yourself to the right leader's truth, Christ's or Karl Marx', and it will set you free."
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"(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home."
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"People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived.' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates, and society."
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"It comes from within."
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"There's something contagious about demanding freedom."
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". . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."
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"The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice."
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"To say "I accept" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder."
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"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."
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"Freedom needs all her poets; it is they Who give her aspirations wings, And to the wiser law of music sway Her wild imaginings."
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"Whatever is not forbidden is permitted."
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"Willing sets you free: that is the true doctrine of will and freedom--thus Zarathustra instructs you."
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"The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament."
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